kěnyín

gums

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
齒 meaning component

  Meaning component

chǐ

  

teeth

艮 sound component

  Sound component

gěngèn

  

blunt

Evolution

齦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
齦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

kěn

gums; variant of [kěn]

() 

yín

gums (of the teeth)

Most common words with 齦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

牙龈

gums

to gnaw

牙龈炎

gingivitis

齿龈

gum

龈炎

gingivitis

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3997th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

Unicode

U+9F66

Shuowen

“齦,齧也。从齒,艮聲。”


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